Name Legacy

Baby names in Maryland, 2010s

2010–2019 · 511,372 recorded births

Noah was the most common name given in Maryland across the 2010s, with 3,317 births in the decade. The state recorded 511,372 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Maryland in the 2010s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Child13058×
Name3447×
Childnotnamed614×
Tavon9110×
Zori48
Khodee5
Kidus43
Jefferson287

Top 25 in the 2010s

RankNameBirths
#1Noah3,317
#2Liam3,134
#3Mason3,061
#4Olivia3,044
#5Ava3,039
#6Logan3,016
#7Jacob2,977
#8Sophia2,966
#9Michael2,871
#10Ethan2,826
#11William2,784
#12Emma2,741
#13James2,715
#14Daniel2,653
#15Dylan2,522
#16Benjamin2,472
#17Alexander2,457
#18Joshua2,433
#19Isabella2,400
#20Ryan2,382
#21Aiden2,292
#22Matthew2,278
#23Abigail2,260
#24David2,227
#25Lucas2,172

Other decades in Maryland

All Maryland names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org